Wednesday 21.st Do—————————————do.
Dr. Jones of Exeter called on me on Monday, & I returned
his visit, & dined with him on Tuesday. He was extremely
civil, as usual. After dinner, we went into the lib~y, where
I looked at their #######Book of Hours, which belonged to the queens
Elizabeth (ux. Hen. VII.) & Katherine ^of Arragon., & bears their autographs.
In the Calendar prefixed are also several notices relative
to the Tudors. I looked also at the copy of the famous
Hebrew Bible, printed at Soncino in 1488 of which Dibden
in his Bibl. Tour, Vol. 3 says there is but one copy in
Engld. viz. in the Bodln. liby. This copy is certainly
not so good as the one in the Bodln. but is otherwise
quite perfect. The types resemble exactly those used
in the Vellum Bible of Mr Coke. I promised to come
one day next week, & arrange the papers of Exeter College.
A letter was brought me ### today (Wedny.) from
Mr Baber, by the Revd. Mr Webbe, author of the Transln.
of Creton’s narrative in Vol. 20. of the Archæologia. Mr
B. states, that my name & proposals ^relative to the Class Catalogue had been submitted
to the Trustees, & that if the Treasury shd. consent, I shd. be
called on immediately to enter on the Office. This is all
very well.
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